For 35 years I worked at the GE campus in Schenectady. When I started, there were about 200 buildings on the campus. Today, there are about 10.

The building I was in for the first 25 years was demolished in 1996, and the building where I spent my last 10 years (and which was erected around 1910 as the corporate headquarters) is scheduled for demolition later this year.

Taxes are much lower on grass than on empty buildings.

Sad? Yes. But I'm now retired, and I'm a shareholder, and the stock has been in the dink for too long. Anything that enhances shareholder value is a good thing.

Last edited by Monophoto; 06-29-2007 at 08:01 AM. Click to view previous post history.

Here I find it typical that unused industrial buildings etc. remain left to themselves for a decades. Being by that time damaged to their structure. Then when they are going to be demolished some people realize their former architectural value and in vain try to stop the demolition. Or someone gets the idea that they would be ideal for housing, office, retail etc. and restores or rather rebuilds them…

Back to photography. In Wolfen they kept one building out of the first building phase alive to remind of the history of that place incorporating a museum.

The signs are up on B-9. The park looks like a mess with piles of rubble everywhere. There is a circus tent up in the #43 parking lot at Lake and Hanford for the expected masses tomorrow morning (I guess). They have put tarps on the south side of B-59 to protect it from debris. B-59 was my home for over 30 years. It is the second Research Lab building and the site of nearly all of the research coating machines and emulsion facilities. So, it was a natural home to me. B-2, the research annex and B-42 the newer annex, both to the west of 59 are now gone.

B-23, on Ridge Road, is in the last stages of gutting today getting ready for Sunday's show.

The north side of 83, the new research building still stands incomplete. The plan was to add a new tower to the north and move all film making R&D there, but it was never to be. The south side of the B-81 research annex is still incomplete. That is the digital fabrication lab.

This was my first trip by there in about a year. I usually take visiting APUG members by to see the place.